Ruston, WA
How exposed is Ruston to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ruston at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 496 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ruston's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Ruston's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99% of Ruston's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Ruston against the rest of the country
Within Washington, Ruston ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ruston ranks 21,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,431 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 307 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Ruston and the insurance market
Ruston's moderate wildfire rating (32nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Ruston
Ruston's 99% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 496 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ruston. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ruston, see the exposure-zones guide.